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135 points barddoo | 6 comments | 19 Sep 25 21:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom

Writing Redis from scratch in Zig.
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johnisgood ◴[19 Sep 25 23:40 UTC] No.45308123[source]▶
Seems like LLMs are getting good at Zig (with some help, I presume).
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mtlynch ◴[19 Sep 25 23:50 UTC] No.45308193[source]▶
Is there anything about this project that seems LLM-generated?

I've found that LLMs are particularly bad at writing Zig because the language evolves quickly, so LLMs that are trained on Zig code from two years ago will write code that no longer compiles on modern Zig.

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5- ◴[20 Sep 25 00:03 UTC] No.45308296[source]▶
https://github.com/barddoo/zedis/blob/87321b04224b2e2e857b67...

these seem to occur only in college assignment projects, and in the output of text generators trained on those.

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1. WD-42 ◴[20 Sep 25 00:15 UTC] No.45308389[source]▶
I will never place emojis in any of my readmes ever again.
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2. chucky_z ◴[20 Sep 25 00:16 UTC] No.45308404[source]▶
spell out 'development' with hammer emojis. bring ascii art back as emoji art.

(i actually do this in slack messages and folks find it funny and annoying, but more funny)

3. tayo42 ◴[20 Sep 25 00:19 UTC] No.45308424[source]▶
People were doing this before llms, otherwise how did they learn it?
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4. WD-42 ◴[20 Sep 25 00:28 UTC] No.45308486[source]▶
Sure, but llms absolutely love to do it for some reason.
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5. adastra22 ◴[20 Sep 25 00:57 UTC] No.45308701[source]▶
That's why he said "never again"
6. tayo42 ◴[20 Sep 25 01:14 UTC] No.45308842{3}[source]▶
I just took a look at a Readme I had cursor write a couple months ago and there's no emojis